This public use data file provides information on household-reported medical conditions collected on a nationally representative sample of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States for the 2016 MEPS Household Component. This file was re-released in November 2022 as an ASCII file (with SAS, SPSS, STATA, and R programming statements), and also in a SAS transport file, a SAS V9 file, a XLSX file, and a Stata file. This public use file provides information on the household-reported medical conditions reported in the 2016 portion of Round 3 and Rounds 4 and 5 for Panel 20, as well as Rounds 1 and 2 and the 2016 portion of Round 3 for Panel 21 (i.e., rounds for MEPS panels covering calendar year 2016). ICD-10 codes and Clinical Classification Software Refined (CCSR) codes are provided.
Note that the re-released SAS transport file was created using the CPORT procedure (instead of the XPORT engine). These CPORT data files (.ssp) cannot be read directly into R or Stata at this time, and one of the other provided file types must be used. For more details on loading MEPS PUFs into R, SAS, and Stata, please visit the MEPS GitHub page. Update Notes
The 2016 and 2017 Medical Conditions Public Use Files were re-released in November 2022. The new releases now include the CCSR variables (CCSR1X, CCSR2X, and CCSR3X). In addition, the legacy masking process that resulted in over-masked ICD10CDX codes on the original release (see Update #1 for details) were replaced with the updated masking processes applied to data years 2018 and beyond.
Update #1: 09/25/20
This update note is obsolete as of the re-release of the 2016 and 2017 Conditions files on 11/17/22 (see Update #2 for details) For confidentiality purposes, rare conditions in the MEPS Public Use Files (PUFs) are recoded to a broader code or set to missing if the sample size or population size falls below a specific threshold. When condition coding transitioned from ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes in data year 2016, these masking processes had residual effects on the 2016 and 2017 Medical Conditions PUFs, resulting in several conditions (ICD-10 codes) being over-masked in these files. As an example, masking processes that were carried over into 2016 and 2017 had the residual effect of re-coding E55 and G47 to the 'broader' codes of E63 and G98, respectively. These masking processes were reviewed and updated for the 2018 data files. The top conditions that were affected include:
Number of people with reported condition in MEPS PUFs
ICD-10
2016
2017
2018
E55* VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY
0
0
314
E63 OTHER NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES
371
360
0
G47* SLEEP DISORDERS
0
0
1434
G98 OTHER DISORDERS OF NERVOUS SYSTEM NEC
1638
1596
0
H26 OTHER CATARACT
0
0
637
I51 COMPLICATIONS AND ILL-DEFINED DESCRIPTIONS OF HEART DISEASE
0
0
311
M06 OTHER RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
0
636
501
* 2016 and 2017 masking processes re-coded the ICD-10 codes of E55 and G47 into the broader codes of E63 and G98, respectively. This residual effect manifests as an apparent sample size shift in 2018 from G98 to G47, and from E63 to E55.
*The PDF version of the codebook is recommended for printing; the HTML version is database driven and lets you navigate quickly to details on each variable.
**Right-click on the data file link, then select Save Target As or Save Link As to download the file.
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